Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-13
o. SATURDAY. AUGUST IS, 1887.
THE MARTINSBURG HERALD, SAT
GENERAL NEWS.

Inc gredU uFOuLn continues In the
northwestern section of the coun-
try.
George Rodgley, aged eighteen
years, of Grant county, w. Va, was
struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
The West Virginia Central has
sued the Baltimore and Ohio for
$50, 900, for the alleged detention of
100 coal hoppers for two years.
The dry weather has caused the
forest fires IN Michigan to spread
over miles of valuable timber land,
and even villages are in danger of
destruction.
WELLsvLLE, n. Y, Aug. z
There was white trcst in this sec
ton this morning, and the Their.
mometer registered about forty de-
grees above zero.
Mrs. Harvey Willis fatally beat
and kicked her mother at Augusta,
Kansas, in an attempt to force the
old lady to leave her money to the
cruel daughter.
Two freight trains collided on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, near Bor-
dentown, n. j. George p. Powell,
fireman, was killed and a brakeman
named Barker seriously hurt.
By collision on the East Tennes
see Railroad, near Chattanooga,
John Burgess and William Braden,
engineer and fireman, we're fatally
injured, and many ofthe passengers
hurt.
While William Wick, aged twenty,
was running a steam saw near AL
toona, Pa, the saw caught his sus-
penders and drew him on to it, cut.
ting him in two and causing instant
death.
Mayor Sutton, nineteen council.
men and the street commissioner of
Wilkesbarre, Pa, were arrested on
complaint of citizens for allowing
stagnant water to accumulate in the
streets.
CHARLESTON, W. VA, August 8.
Charles Williams, who was confn-
ed in the Jail of Logan county, for
the murder of James Aldrldge, sur
veyor of the county, few days ago,
was taken from Jail last evening by
citizens and hanged to tree.
MACON, GA, Aug. 7.-Captain
and Mrs. Richard F. Voolfolk, and
their six children, ranging in age
from eighteen months to twenty
years, and Mrs. West aged so, an
aunt of Mrs. Voolfolk, were found
murdered In their house, about
twelve miles from this city, on Sat.
urday morning. Capt. Voolfolk
was q well.known farmer. The cor
oner's jury found a virdict of MUIR
der against Thos. G. Voolfolk, son of
the captains first wife, who was
sleeping in the house.
Several of the convicted Chicago
boodlers resigned their offices on
Saturday night. States Attorney
Grinnell demanded the designations
in court, and Judge Jameson an
nounced that they must resign.
The Judge said the spectacle
of the legislators of the county ad-
ministering its affairs in Jail would
not be tolerated. The boodlers who
we're fined by the court withdrew
their motions for new trial. The
motions of those sentenced to i'm
prisonment will be heard in Sep.
TENDER.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, August z.
20. ]. Quill, New River coke
oven contractor, committed suicide
at Sewell Station, Fayette county,
w. Va, yesterday morning, by
shooting himself through the head.
The deceased was native of Fair.
mont, W. Va, from which place he
went to Sewell two years ago to
build the Mann's Creek Short Line
Railroad. Quill was in this city the
early part of the week, and it is said
INDUCED heavily in drinking and
gambling. He won several hundred
dollars from one gambling house,
and lost it with much more at an.
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